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Krissy Miller doesn’t usually kneel in prayer before hiking the Y, but that day in September 2023, something compelled her to stop before going to the trail.
Kneeling in her living room, the Latter-day Saint from Provo, Utah, asked Heavenly Father to guide her in making a decision about becoming a kidney donor. The idea had been on Miller’s heart and mind for almost a year by then, but she felt uncertain about the health risks and about the possibility that her Type 1 diabetic husband, Chris, could need her kidney someday.
But that day, on the Hike the Y Trail — a steep, 2.2-mile round trip hike to Brigham Young University’s iconic mountainside block “Y” — Miller met a man named Shiller Joseph. He was on the kidney transplant waiting list, he told her. And he was glad to be living in Utah because the state’s waiting list is so much shorter than the list in Florida, his home state.
Miller said she felt “electricity” go through her at Joseph’s words. “I don’t usually get answers to prayer that directly, but it was unmistakable.”
As Miller continued talking with Joseph and his wife, Rhona, she could tell they were people of faith. So she shared with them that they’d answered her prayer — and asked to stay in touch on the chance that she could donate her kidney to Shiller Joseph.
That day marked the beginning of Miller and Joseph’s friendship. The road ahead wasn’t always smooth as they prayed and hoped they’d be a match as donor and recipient, but they leaned on each other, their families and their shared faith in Jesus Christ.
Thirteen months and one transplant later, Miller’s kidney is giving Joseph a new lease on life.
“This is a modern-day miracle,” Joseph said, adding, “[This] is an example of true love, just like Jesus did for us. Although we fall [short] in our faith, stay strong, because we may not understand our journey. But God does.”
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